patter

Speech parts

1. patter - Noun

2. patter - Verb

Meaning

To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.

To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.

To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.

To mutter; as prayers.

A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.

Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.

The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

spatter sprinkle babble drumming spit chatter spiel prattle gabble blather pitter-patter creole pat tosh jabber
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Antonyms

council communion buzz jive communication argument
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Hypernyms

line sound channel rain go rain down

Phrases with the word

glib patter

Derivatives

pattered pattering

Anagrams

Pratte

Examples

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. W. C. Fields

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems. Bruce Lee

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. Dashiell Hammett

I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different. Harvey Fierstein

And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place. Diana Wynne Jones

When brothers quarrel, take a hoe and go and dig; and when they make it up, take a basket and patter the crop. Swahili Proverb

Close letter words and terms

pattened pattener pattenmaker patter flash patter song patteran